National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
Donald Webster was a research assistant at the Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project. He received a B.
E. L. Taliaferro worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.